“Since the time Kalvos’s odes first appeared their language attracts the interest of specialists, particularly due to the original and rare mixture of scholarly and popular elements. […] Indeed, this is not just the purist katharevousa language of intellectuals of the 19th century; rather it surprises the reader with the wealth of different forms, with elaborate, pretentious words (for example “self announced” (“αυτάγγελτος”), “short lived” (“βραχυχρόνιος”), “herbiferous” (“πολυβότανος) etc.) together with words of daily popular usage (for example, “cloud” (“σύγνεφο”), “fall” (“πέφτω”), etc.). Such variety though, especially obvious and interesting in terms of vocabulary, is also expressed in his morphology, syntax and phonology. Indeed, we find altered types of words, like «σφραγίδιον» (“signet”), «υπεργλυκυτάτη» (“dolcissima”), «ρίχνουσι» (“throwing”), «εκαταφρόνεις» (“contemned”)), that may be partly justified due to the fact that he lived long abroad and thus he had missed the sense of the living language.”